Hillsboro recorder., 1887-12-15

pea fodder to the best hay, and both
thrive on the food. .a
Sell the old hens if possible. They
won't pay for keeping over winter, and
will soon be unstable.
Don't consider your home prepared for
winter until the cellar is cleaned and put
in tidy, healthy state.
+ A practical farmer says: A highly
productive farm, with good fences, well
stocked and the taxes paid to date, and
free from mortgage, is desirable inher-
itance. 49, m@na s@.
4 It is fallacy to milk cows but once
day, when they drop off in yield in the
winter. As long as the COW is MIXED,
it should be twice day. It is injurious
to both COW and milk to allow the milk
to remain so long in the udder.
Mr.. Waldo F. Brown, who has buried
potatoes each fall for a quarter of
century, says he never lost a bushel by
covering too deep; but many went to
waste on account of insufficient earth to
/ keep out frost. He adds: "Don't put
the tubers in too large bulk.
1t is a well known fact that insect
pests attack the most vigorous trees in
the orchard, neglecting the compara-
lively dry and juiceless branches of de-
caying trees. Another mistake is that
a healthy tree has the power of ridding
itself of the scale Insects which infest it.
Inspection of healthy trees is eminently
necessary if the owner would keep them
profitable and in good shape. ~""
PicPs Magazine says that basic Stag,
the refuse of steel works, when freed
from iron and reduced to powder proves
to be valuable fertilizer, principally on
account of the phosphorus it contains.
Mountains of black Stag have aceumu-
lated about the iron and steel works in
England, and much in this country, all
of which can be profitably worked over
and made into valuable manure.
Oil, says the american Agricutwist,
is fatal to every insect it touches, and
sulphur is very offensive to them. A
mixture of four ounces of lard and one
of sulphur, well rubbed together, and
with the addition of one ounce of
kerosene oil and one drachm of creosote
will be found an excellent remedy
against all sorts of insect vermin, while
the liberal use of kerosene oil on poultry
roosts will free the fowls of their tor
mentors.
The garden needs more manure. This
fact shoald always be kept in mind, and
every bit of waste that is likely to have
any value, mechanical or otherwise, as
manure, should be added to the heap. 1t
is wonderful what lot of manure may be
got together by those who keep this al
ways before them. Everybody, of course,
should keep pigs to eat up the waste
!. vegetables, and with manure from the
pig-stye should be blended all the Other
waste matters of the garden and house.
On the approach of winter provisoL
should be made for dust baths for hens
when the soils locked with frost. A
sufficient quantity of dry loan should be
secured an / placed in barrels or boxes to
satisfy all possible demands. Hens enjoy
rolling and wallOwing in dry earth in the
sun, and it is also desirable to spread
under the roosts to receive the drop
pings, serving as a deodorizer when the
droppings are collected, as they should
be, so that the hen house may be kept
reasonably clean.
A whitewash that will not rub of is
made by Stacking one-half bushel lime
with boiling water, keeping it covered
during the process. Strain it and add a
peck Of salt dissolved in warm water,
three pounds of ground rice put in boil
ing water, and boiled to a thin paste; one
half pound powdered Spanish whiting,
and a pound OF clear glue dissolved in
warm water. Mix these we'll together
and let the mixture stand for several
days. Keep the wash thus prepared in a
kettle, and when used put it on as hot as
possible with painters or whitewashers'
brushes.
/ A good many farmers have the idea,
says the P'ogghHldR, that milk is not Just
right for pigs until it is soured. This is
a very serious mistake. No possible good
can cine from souring it, but very seri-
Gus harm. After you take out the cream
and water, the most that remains is
} caseine and sugar Of milk. Both are
valuable. But when you sour il you
change the sugar Of milk into laetic acid,
and lose nearly half the entire value Of
your milk. Feed milk sweet to calves
and pigs and colts. Never let IL sour IL
you can helpit.. Why will you throw
away half its value'
The feeding value Of apples is not
large; they rank with mangels, turnips,
cabbage, and the like. Their food prop
critics are mostly carbo -hydrates, or heat
producing, their. proteine being only
about one.half Of one per cent, and
their nutritive ratio about one to thirty,
and hence aremost effective when fed In
connection with more nitrogenous food,
; like clover, but may be fed sparingly
with grass. The have q higher value
than the weight Of their food constitu.
cBts indicates, on account Of condimen.
} tal qualities, and from having large per
, cent. Of those constituents In a condi-
tion 10 be at once absorbed and appro-
priated without waiting for any special
, action Of the stomach.
! A pafriAad gatn,au